Google Play Music, Music Play Store and Music Manager are going away

Post by zeruch » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 9:10 AM UTC

echelon wrote: post #217

ElijahLynn wrote: post #93

And FWIW, the migration doesn't work. The "thumbs up" playlist goes into YT Music "Liked music" which includes all sorts of other YouTube "music-ish" videos that we have liked over the years and the order is all jacked up, plus mixed with all that other stuff. So your "Liked Music" is now, not what you intended. The migration was super botched by the product team because of this.

Figures it doesn't work. They don't care. To every Google employee reading this: your company sucks. Tell that to your manager. With the exception of Youtube, I will never use Google entertainment products again. No Stadia, no Google Play Movies. I don't know what their vision is for product, but whatever it is subtracts from the world. I was worried a decade ago when I saw music moving into the cloud. Now my fears a…

Post by jdeibele » Sun, Oct 25, 2020, 6:49 PM UTC

jwalton wrote: post #345

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> I honestly don't know why Google's Product Team has any positive reputation at this point. They have a positive reputation? I've been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains... I'm about done. It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they're just an advertising company. Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades th…

I'm having a very hard time deciding what my next phone will be. I'd like to move away from Android because it's basically an advertising machine, and iOS certainly seems to be the more privacy focused... But I also won't be able to run "real" firefox with an ad blocker like I can on Android...

Post by arthurcolle » Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

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This is the main reason I prefer it to Spotify.

I don’t understand why Spotify won’t let me downvote music. At least I haven’t figured out how yet.

Post by jwalton » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

jdeibele wrote: post #353

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I'm having a very hard time deciding what my next phone will be. I'd like to move away from Android because it's basically an advertising machine, and iOS certainly seems to be the more privacy focused... But I also won't be able to run "real" firefox with an ad blocker like I can on Android...

Use PiHole on a Raspberry Pi or set your DNS to use servers that block ads via DNS. I did the latter six months ago. One time I've had to show my college freshman how to change the DNS on her MacBook from the router default settings to Google or Cloudflare because the software her class was using wouldn't work otherwise. We do have a Roku and I get tempted to set up 2 Raspberry Pis for PiHole. I did set up one, then…